Azerbaijan, Germany discuss COP29 priorities

COP29 President-designate Mukhtar Babayev and Special Envoy for International Climate Action and State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry Jennifer Morgan held a meeting on the margins of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.

“During UNGA, COP29 President-Designate Mukhtar Babayev and the Presidency team sat down with Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Representative for International Climate Policy for German Foreign Office, to continue to find ways to make further progress together on shared priorities for COP29 in Baku,” Caliber.Az reports, citing the COP29 Azerbaijan’s X page.

The decision to hold the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku on November 11-22 was made at the plenary session of COP28 in Dubai on December 11, 2023. For two weeks Baku will turn into a global center that will host from 70,000 to 80,000 international guests.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an agreement signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 aimed at preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.

The acronym COP stands for “Conference of the Parties” and refers to the highest decision-making body responsible for overseeing implementation of the UNFCCC. The Convention has 198 member states. Unless otherwise decided by the parties, the COP is held annually. The first COP event was held in Berlin in March 1995, and its secretariat is located in Bonn.

By Khagan Isayev